Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard, carrying the general chief’s yellow jersey, celebrates after the twenty-first stage of the Tour de France in Paris on Sunday.

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Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard, carrying the general chief’s yellow jersey, celebrates after the twenty-first stage of the Tour de France in Paris on Sunday.

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PARIS — Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard has received the Tour de France for a second straight yr as biking’s most storied race completed Sunday on the famed Champs-Élysées.

With an enormous lead constructed up over foremost rival Tadej Pogačar, the 2020 and 2021 winner, Vingegaard knew the victory was successfully his once more earlier than the largely ceremonial stage on the finish of the one hundred and tenth version of the Tour.

Vingegaard drank champagne together with his Jumbo-Visma teammates as they lined up collectively and posed for pictures on the way in which to Paris.

It had been a three-week slog over 3,405 kilometers (2,116 miles) with eight mountain levels throughout 5 mountain ranges. Vingegaard seized management of the race over two levels within the Alps.

Little had separated the 2 rivals till Vingegaard completed a time trial 1 minute, 38 seconds forward of Pogačar on Tuesday, then adopted up the following day by ending the hardest mountain stage of the race virtually 6 minutes forward of his exhausted rival.

“I’m dead,” Pogačar stated.

The Slovenian rider responded by successful the penultimate stage on Saturday, however Vingegaard nonetheless had an insurmountable lead of seven minutes, 29 seconds going into the ultimate stage — a largely ceremonial stage which is contested on the finish by the sprinters.

“We have to be careful not to do anything stupid,” Vingegaard warned Saturday, “but yeah, it’s amazing to take my second victory in the Tour de France.”

Belgian bicycle owner Jordi Meeus received the ultimate stage in a photograph end between 4 riders on the road, simply forward of Jasper Philipsen, Dylan Groenewegen and Mads Pedersen.

“It was my first Tour. It was a super nice experience already so far, and to take the win today is an incredible feeling,” Meeus stated.